The Art Club has been in Mayflower since its very beginning. It is multi –disciplinary, encompassing old and new skills and embracing both eastern and western cultures.
Members come together every Friday from 7.55 a.m. to 9.55 a.m. During these two hours, pupils are taught different skills of art making. These skills include lantern making, charcoal drawing, pastel oil drawing, poster colour painting, batik printing, printmaking, paper weaving, paper sculpture, mask making and paper mache crafts.
The club aims to instill amongst its members a keen interest in the wide range of art forms and creativity through art making. It also strives to raise members’ awareness and appreciation of various cultures and values.
Members of the Art Club have participated in many competitions such as the Singapore Youth Festival (SYF) Competition, ‘Unity through Diversity‘, and Anti-Drug Competitions. During the 2006 Funtasia, members set up a stall selling crafts in an effort to raise funds for the school’s needy pupils.
Singapore Biennale
Singapore Biennale invites artists from around the world to present works in the country and also provides significant opportunities for Singaporean visual artists to present their art work. Mayflower Primary School is one of the 40 schools that had participated in this major outreach project.
Our P6 Art Club pupils drew their self-portrait without depicting themselves, but rather their surroundings, exploring how their environment shapes them. They used animation techniques to morph their portrait into a larger collective landscape made up of many points of view.
Below is Low Zheng Yu, a P6 Art club member, whose artwork has been printed on the Singapore Biennale 2011 Open House brochure.
